Insect guard and buffer for roller casters



J. E. WILEY INSECT GUARD AND BUFFER FOR ROLLER CASTERS June 17 Filed July 85 1922 TURN/i1 Patented June 17, 1924.

UNITED STATES JAMES E. WILEY, 0' COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO.

INSECT GUARD AND BUFFER FOR ROLLER CASTERS,

Application filed July 8,

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMns E. WILEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Colorado Springs, in the county 01"- El Paso and State of Colorado, have invent ed a new and useful Insect Guard and Butler for Roller Casters, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in insect guards and buffers for rollercasters, in which a dish is secured about the casterpost and charged with oil or other fluid obnoxious to the passage of insects from the floor to the leg or support of an article of furniture, and wherein a metaldisc is provided on the post of the caster roller and projecting horizontally and provided at its rim or perimeter with a soft buffer mem her, as a rubber ring provided to guard the furniture from striking against the walls of a room or other fixture; and the objects of my invention are, first, to provide means for preventing insects from climbing from the floor to a table or other article of furniture; second, to provide means for protecting the walls or other fixtures in a room from being struck ormarred by the moving furniture upon which mounted.

I attain these objects by means of the appliances described in the accompanying drawings in which,

Figure 1, represents a plan view of the.

metal disc provided to hold the butter ring d; Fig. 2, is an edge view of Fig. 1; Fig. 3, is a plan view of the buffer ring; Fig. 4, is an edge view of the buffer ring d, shown in Fig. 3; Fig. 5, is a side elevation of the dish e; Fig. 6 is a plan view of the dish 6; Fig. 7 is a plan view of the metal disc at with the buffer ring (Z mounted thereon; Fig. 8 represents a sectional elevation of a roller caster wheel and post with the metal disc at and the buffer ring (13 mounted thereon, and with the dish a resting on said metal disc a.

This appliance is applicable to be attached to any caster roller that has a post mounting to a table or bedstead or refrigerator or other furniture desired, as the post this appliance is 1922. erial No. 573,543.

g of the caster passes up through the said metal disc and through the said dish e at their respective orifices b and f. The dish 6 is provided to be supplied with oil covering its floor or the bottom of the dish so as to be oilensive-to the passage of insects from the buffer ring cl to the post 9 or the thimble h and thus cut oil the travel of the insect from the floor to the article of furniture, as to atable or bedstead. The lugs 0 extending alternately on both sides of the mounted horizontally on said caster, stag-.

gered lips integral with said disc on its perimeter forming an interrupted groove, a buffer ring of soft pliable material mounted in said groove, an annular dish mounted on said disc and parallel therewith and provided to contain oil and having a central opening for the reception of said post.

2. A caster roller member having an upright pivotal post member entering a bearing in an-article of furniture, a horizontally extending disc having a centrally located orifice provided for the reception of said post and mounted thereon, a dish having a centrally located orifice provided to receive said post and mounted thereon above said disc, staggered lips integral with said disc and alternately bent from the plane of the disc and forming an interrupted annular groove about the perimeter of said disc, a buffer ring member of soft material mounted in said groove and on the same plane as said disc, a dish member having a central opening to receive said-post and mounted on said disc and provided to contain oil or other fluid substance. obnoxious to insects, substantially as set forth.

JAMES WlLE-Y. 

